Investigate possibility of releasing a WebStorm version

[MarcusDalgren]

The plugin depends on com.jetbrains.php for its php features which means it doesn't run in WebStorm. Investigate if Jetbrains supports releasing different versions for different platforms.

[Zauberfisch]

I see that some designers might only do the template part and not care about PHP, but I'd say there are enough issues more important than supporting webstorm. Silverstripe is a PHP framework, so I think it can be expected of a developer/web designer to use a PHP IDE.

[moniuch]

I don't know how much work is involved in preparing a WebStorm build, so I am not about to weigh out time expense vs benefit. I have to object though to saying that templating belongs to backend/PHPStorm side. Myself being a frontend man, I would expect WebStorm to assist me in tailoring a template, to signal syntax errors, format code, provide suggestions, and such.

If you don't agree then, well, what can I do except to ask you to remove the misleading intro: "IDEA-SilverStripe adds support for SilverStripe templates to IDEs based on the IntelliJ IDEA platform [...] WebStorm". It cost me some time to investigate why the plugin seemed to install but did not work, and eventually contact @MarcusDalgren to shed light on me as per the reasons.

If it does not work w/WebStrom, it does not support the IntelliJ platform.

[Zauberfisch]

@moniuch I see your point. and in a perfect world where everyone had more than enough time to spend on open source, I would fully support that. but fact is, the plugin is far from being finished, and I am sure @MarcusDalgren has much work on his hands as we all do, and therefore only very limited time to put into this open source software. So I say: rather fix more pressing issues and implement important features than spending a big amount of effort on this "almost edge case". (edge case because I believe the actual number of webstorm users in the silverstripe community is rather limited)

one thing I totally agree on is updating the readme to avoid misleading users to believe it supports all intellij based IDEs.

[MarcusDalgren]

It started out as a plugin that worked for all platforms until I started adding features for referencing variables in PHP from the template. Since then it depends on the PHP-sdk which you have if you're running PHPStorm or IntelliJ IDEA with the PHP plugin installed. I will update the readme.

[moniuch]

As always, I'm very thankful to OpenSource developers for their commitment and I believe that your resources are limited. We might all be surprised with the results though, if we released a survey to see how much of an 'edge case' I represent ;-)

Happy coding, guys!

[Zauberfisch]

@moniuch I guess that would in fact be interesting, I always feel like SilverStripe is a framework/CMS for developers, but I am beginning to see that there are more and more designers using SilverStripe.

[moniuch]

I believe the split between developers and designers comes from the ideal world that you referred to :) A much more adequate one would be between backend and frontend, but still - there a lot of people verging on both domains. In real world simple PHP and template-related issues can easily be solved by front people.